Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 09:29:49 / February 8, 2020 @ 9:29 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:29:49 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8475° West, 17.7335° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007lgf. Id of event: us70007lgf. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Estancias de Florida, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8475° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-08 09:29:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-08 10:01:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	224	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70007lgf	Id of event.
Event Code	70007lgf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007lgf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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